The Heavy Equipment Set (HEQS) is a road vehicle set featuring trucks, tractors and heavy equipment for mining, logging, farming and other specialised uses. It includes some vehicles that are just plain useful, some very large vehicles which radically change the gameplay possibilities of road vehicles, and some things that are mostly eye candy, but can haul cargo profitably.

This equipment would fit well into a niche in TT/OTTD: feeder service. I extensively build feeder services to consolidate the output from several industries to a rail station, and I figure I'm not alone in playing that way. The benefits of feeder service are:- Improved station ratings and industry production due to regular small pickups by RVs- Can use longer trains which are more efficient on track usage and running cost- More realistic (for those who play that way)- More vehicle/route optimisation (for those who play that way)- More fun/eye candy (for those who play that way).

We have some great road vehicle (RV) sets already for highway use: GRTVS, a partially complete UK (HOVS) set, and George's Long Vehicles. It would be neat to have off-highway equipment to use as well.

I am proposing to create the following list, which would be relevant from about 1975 (older vehicles could be suggested for earlier in the game): - Articulated 6x6 dump truck (ADT): mineral products.- Heavy haul mining truck: mineral products. This would have to be a small version due to scale issues.- Logging harvester or forwarder: wood / lumber. Great for getting from the cutting zone to the loadout.- Heavy Industrial Transporter: any cargo, but intended for steel, paper, copper, goods. Don't know much about these, but the key thing would be to design them to match scale and offer something different to regular RVs (high capacity, low speed, high purchase cost, low running cost).- JCB Fastrac + trailer: any cargo, but intended to get farm products to the elevator (35 tons at 50 mph!)- Foremost vehicles: eye candy cos I like them, but can carry any cargo including passengers (slowly!), realistic for oil fields in snow and desert, and tourists. Would like to include Delta, Nodwell, Terrabus.

This is the New Zealand Railways Department Class DE, a diesel shunter that was also used for light freight and passenger service. According to Wikipedia they apparently multiheaded them to haul the Queen around when she visited NZ in the 50s. They're quite pretty IMHO and there's one preserved not far from where I live.

I've done all the alignment to suit the UK Renewal Set; it doesn't match up too badly with DBSet either. Stock TTD carriages etc. have pretty strange alignment so it won't look good with them.

Bound to be plenty of bugs, please let me know what I can improve on, I have heaps to learn.

Work on the Dutch Trainset is being done by members of the Transport Tycoon forums. This forum is the place where the ideas originated and will also be the place where discussion will take place. For information about the complete progress, we recommend you to visit our Dutch Trainset topic in the TTDPatch Graphics section of the Transport Tycoon forums.

A trainset that includes many Dutch engines and wagons. This set is available for TTDPatch and OpenTTD. Please read the manual, it's included for a reason